My professional experience began in Atlanta, Georgia, with Atlanta Magazine, shifted to Los Angeles with Whittaker Corporation (a Fortune 500 industrial conglomerate), moved to New York and American Express followed by Burson-Marsteller, then zoomed across the Atlantic to Milan, Italy, with J. Walter Thompson and scores of international clients, followed by freelancing on the French Riviera during the tech boom of the 1990s, and again in Italy with dozens of new and continuing clients. 

My commitment to clients is enriched by continuing community involvement. Currently I am head of the Johns Hopkins Alumni Association in Northern Italy, and the Milan organizer for Mount Holyoke College alumnae. I was chairman of Democrats Abroad - Milan from 2003-2005, during which time we doubled the size of the mailing list, brought the treasury from red to significantly in the black, and extended outreach to opinion leaders and the international press in Milan for the first time. Currently I am responsible for the Democrats Abroad - Italy newsletter.

I was a founding member of the Professional Women's Association of Milan and wrote the original bylaws for that organization. I served on the board of directors of what is today the International School of Nice. As a journalist, I have appeared on Italian television and radio, Tunisian television, and Monte Carlo radio, commenting on public affairs.

Add to these activities an Italian husband, two quadrilingual sons, a former French-German Weimaraner and a current bonsai Doberman-wannabe, and you can see how my global perspective is reinforced daily.

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